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the method of procuring food is set forth differently. The bear or 

 some other animal cuts pieces of meat or fat from his own body, or 

 the animal pulls out blood or some other material from its body by 

 means of a sharp stick or an arrow, or shoots itself and pulls out 

 part of the body, and the material thus obtained is transformed into 

 food that is given to the guest. Characteristic for the North Pacific 

 coast is also the production of food by the song of a bird. Outside of 

 the Pacific coast we find very commonly the idea of an animal gath- 

 ering wood or other material, which is transformed into food; or the 

 idea that an animal kills his children, who are transformed into food 

 and then revived. This idea is not by any means absent from the 

 North Pacific coast; it does not occur, however, in the setting of the 

 Bungling Host stories, but it belongs to the type of tales telling of 

 the visit of animals to the Salmon country. 



The tale having the widest distribution is that of the Fish Hawk 

 or Kingfisher, who jumps into the water, diving for fish. This occurs 

 practically over the whole of North America, apparently with the 

 sole exception of the northern part of the North Pacific coast. 



In the following I shall treat the story of the Bungling Host accord- 

 ing to the various types of hospitality offered. 



(a) The Host Lets Oil Drip Out Of His Hands 



(17 versions: Ts 90; N6 46; Mo 323: Ska" 133; BC 93; BC 5.245; Ne 5.177; Ne 

 9.237; K 11.159; Nu 5.106; Co 5.76; Se 51; Squ 5.57; Ntl Hill-Tout 2.575; Ntl 

 Teit 2.40; Ntl Teit 3.301; Sh 627. See also Tla 6) 



This story is told of Seal and Sea Lion Skd; of the Seal Ts, N6, BC 5, Ne 5, K 11, 

 Co 5; of Raven's sister, the Seal Se 51; of Raven's brother Squ 5.57; of Young Seal 

 BC. It is said that Young Seal washes and heats his hands Ne 9. In place of Young 

 Seal we find the Bear acting the host in this way in Nu 5, Ntl Hill-Tout 2, Ntl Teit 2: 

 a person called Oil Man in Sh 027. More distantly related to this group is the Masset 

 story of Greatest Eagle, who lets grease run out of his hands Ma. 



The story Se continues here differently. Seal's twelve daughters are sent home 

 with Raven one after another, and he clubs them while they are drinking. Finally 

 Raven is turned into stone. 



This incident occurs in connection with the killing of the Bear (see p. 681) in Tla 6. 



F. G. Speck, Ethnology of the Yuchi Indians ( Un ■ ■■ : , of Pi nnsylvania, Anthropological Publications 

 of Ou University Musi urn. vol. I, No. 1).— Cherokee: Jam.'- Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee {Nineteenth 

 Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, part 1 '.—Alabama, Creek, Natchez: John R.Swanton, 

 "Animal Stories from the Indians of the Muskhogean -in, k " Juuinal of Ann ilea n Folk-Lore, vol. xxn, 

 1913, p. 198) — Iliichiti: Personal communication from Dr. John E. Swanton.— Fox: William Jones, 

 Fox Texts (Publications of the American Ethnological Society, vol. I), Leyden, Brill, 1007; Kickapoo: 

 William Jones, Kickapoo Texts (ibid., vol. IX), Leyden, Brill, 1915.— Ponca: J. Owen Dorsey (Contribu- 

 tions to Xorth American Ethnology, vol. vr).— Crow: Communication from E. H. Lowie.— Arapaho: 

 Dorsey and Kroeber, Traditions of the Arapaho (Field Columbian Museum, Anthropological Series, vol. 

 v).— Micmac: Silas T. Band, Legends of the Micmac (reprinted in Leland, 20S); Frank G. Speck, " Some 

 Micmac Tales from Cape Breton Island" (Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. xxvm. 1915, p. 64).— 

 Ojibwa: II. R. Schoolcraft, The Myth of Hiawatha ( Philadelphia, 1856); Paul Eadin, Some Myths and 

 Talesof the Ojibwa of Southeastern Ontario (Memoir iS, Geological Surrey of Canada), Ottawa, 1914; 

 Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa ( Memoir 

 11, ibid.); William Jones, Ojibwa Texts (Publications of the American Ethnological Society, vn).— Penob- 

 scot: Frank G. Speck. ■• Penobscot Tales" (Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. xxvm, 1915, p. 52).— 

 Cora: Tli. Prcuss, Die Nayarit Expedition.— Kutenai: Franz Boas, Kutenai Tales (Bulletin S9, Bnrcaaof 

 American Ethnology). 



